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Re: Light-speed humor (was Re: S6 with dual exhausts...)



Hairy green toads from Mars made Arun Rao say:

> 	Aha, time to air a physics-geek limerick:
> 
> 		There was a young fencer called Fiske,
> 	 	who in his action was exceedingly brisk.
> 		So fast was his action,
> 		that the Fitzgerald contraction
> 		foreshortened his foil to a disk.
> 
> 	OK, I'll shut up now.

To which I'll add the (slight Audi-content) physics-geek riddle:

	How fast must you be going to blue-shift a
	red light to appear green?

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